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Follow on Google News | iXiGO.com launches Trip Planner - an industry firstiXiGO.com, India’s leading travel search engine, today announced the launch of “Trip Planner” ixigo.com/q, a first-of-its-kind product for trip planning and travel research.
By: iXiGO.com iXiGO’s Trip Planner is most suitable for travelers who wish to make an informed choice of modes of transportation for their trip, across flights, trains, buses and taxis. In addition, the Trip Planner shows relevant destination information with the top recommendations from the web. A sample query for “Lucknow to Shimla” - http://www.ixigo.com/ “With Trip Planner, we are creating a paradigm shift in how travelers research and consume travel information!” “We’re evolving from being a travel search engine to becoming an interactive travel knowledge engine, by developing an understanding of common travel-related queries and answering them just like a human being would,” explains Rajnish Kumar, Co-Founder & CTO, iXiGO.com. “Our objective is to enable our users to converse with our search engine just the way they would converse with a friend or travel guide. Currently our Trip Planner supports queries across 250 Indian cities covering modes of transportation, cheapest/fastest modes, distance, driving directions, flights, trains, buses and cars. This would get further enhanced with more features and functionalities as we broaden our understanding of travel queries in the near future.” iXiGO.com has been known for its industry-first product innovations and has made inroads into semantic search earlier this year, with the launch of a natural language search tool on Facebook & Twitter that understands flight queries made by users of these platforms and responds to them instantly. With Google’s launch of its Knowledge Graph recently, the quest for understanding user queries and presenting relevant, curated, contextual information to them is gathering steam. iXiGO’s Trip Planner is poised to become a pioneer on this front for the global travel industry. About iXiGO.com: iXiGO.com is South Asia’s leading online and mobile travel search engine. iXiGO.com’s vision is to develop products to ease and simplify the life of travelers and to make travelling a happy and wholesome experience. Their key products like the TripPlanner, FareMapper, FlightPlanner amongst others help a traveler in planning a trip and searching the best travel solution suited to an individual’s needs. Launched in 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni as the first travel meta-search engine in India, iXiGO’s unbiased search results and ease-of-use have won it several accolades from TiE and NASSCOM, and have made it one of the top travel sites in India almost entirely through word-of-mouth from satisfied users. iXiGO.com is an investee company of SAIF Partners & MakeMyTrip Limited. For more information about iXiGO.com, visit www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile). Keep up with interesting trivia, facts and contests around travel by iXiGO.com on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ Contact Travel Partners partners@ Affiliations affiliate@ixigo.com Advertisers advertise@ixigo.com Media Contact Saurabh Srivastava saurabh@ixigo.com +91 124 4617884 End
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